Widgets zoals Entrecard zuigt

Oops….wat ik wilde zeggen was „widgets als entrecard' zuigt mijn tijd'“. Daar ga ik opnieuw met mijn vette vingers! Hopelijk zal de titel voor wat goede linkbait hoe dan ook maken. Controle uit Entrecard, wat is wat ik SLINGERING of „Nog een andere Widget“ roep. U zult mijn Entrecard widget in mijn sidebar op dit ogenblik zien! Waarom is daar het? Waarom wordt blogrush widget achter na ik gezegd vaarwel aan het over een maand geleden?

Alle goede vragen! Blogrush widget kwam terug nadat ik las ShoeMoney en anderen deden in orde met het. Na alle aanvankelijke „groeiende pijnen“ het schijnt om verkeer na allen eigenlijk te brengen. I ook hoorde eerste over Entrecard toen Shoemoney over het een paar maanden schreef achter nadat hij hun cabine bij een overeenkomst had gezien. Ik had niet veel over het gedacht, en soms ben ik één van laatste om op deze „me ook te springen“ widget bandwagons. Ik ben altijd een ventilator van „zoveel mogelijk het houden van het“ op mijn plaats eenvoudig geweest. Als u een bos van widgets en externe vraag aan andere websites toevoegt kunt u de ladingstijd van al uw pagina'splaats wijd dramatisch verhogen. Dan opnieuw, soms vergeet ik dat elk klein beetje van bevordering helpt.

Wat is Entrecard? Het klinkt als één hoogtepunt van van die het slechte „Boeken van het Vermaak“ van restaurantcoupons want $50 niet het? Ik kan het vrij eenvoudig verklaren - in een notedop is het enkel a rehashed modern de uitwisselingssysteem van de dagbanner. Periode. Cre�ër een rekening, upload pic, voeg uw code toe, toon uw pic op de plaatsen van andere mensen (met de geïnstalleerden code) die op het aantal tijden worden gebaseerd zij op uw plaats worden gediend. Ik veronderstel de naam steek houdt, de geluiden „Entrecard“ als „introduceren me Kaart“ - zoals een andere plaats introducerend van u met een klein adreskaartje.

You’re probably wondering - what’s the twist, there has to be something that makes it different? Well there is. Entercard is just a bit “social” if you know what I mean. I told you earlier in very basic terms how it works, but neglected to give you the full low-down.

How Entrecard Works

• Signup for an account
• Upload your graphic (make a good linkbait style one)
• Click “Campaigns” and find other Entrecard sites. For every one you click “drop yours” you get one EC or EntreCredit
• Other sites will now find you in Campaigns, and when they “drop” their card at your site you get one EC
• When you “drop” a card your pic is displayed in the Inbox portion of that site’s Dashboard
• Once you get some EC’s you can ’spend’ them to advertise for an entire day on another site in their widget

So the social aspect is the fact that you have to surf the Campaign directory a little bit to earn some credits. As soon as my account was created people were dropping their cards on me and I had some credits. I surfed about a dozen other sites in the directory and in about 5-8 minutes I had 20 credits. This widget was a no-brainer because I had an account created, added the widget to my blog, surfed the directory and was done in about 15 minutes. Now I can just go in there a few times per week and I should be able to advertise for a day on a few blogs using my credits in no time! I could spend some right now if I wanted to!

Now I’ll tell you what made me look at Entrecard today in the first place. I read a post on 45n5 about Why you should care about Entercard and it reminded me of a very basic principle: the idea is spreading. That’s right - you want in on this because the idea is ’spreading’. It’s VIRAL! It’s hot. People are actively using it, and you can get the word out about your site by using it. Actually one of the reasons I’ve thought about getting rid of the myBlogLog widget is because it doesn’t seem to be hot anymore. Out of 3 dozen visitors a half dozen seem to be myBlogLog users. It’s completely ok to add and remove widgets, links, services, or basically anything based on current trends - if it benefits your blog or web site.

What was my blogging mistake this time? Not recognizing this early on as something that would virally catch on - I should have added the widget sooner! I would have started receiving traffic long ago! If you get an Entrecard widget, be sure to “drop yours” on my site! If you have a comment about Entrecard or widgets in general - comment now!

**UPDATE**
I wanted to talk a bit about the ’social’ aspect of Entrecard. The cool thing about it is after you get your account people immediately start “dropping their card” on you. You’ll see their pics listed in your Dashboard. I figured out why people do this right away when you are basically “fresh meat”. It’s because you are new that they want to drop their card and signup for advertising with you, because your rates (the amount of credits they have to spend) for advertising are just 2 or 3 EC’s when you first signup until you have some activity. So you get a flurry of people wanting to get in on this action (cheap advertisement!). The more cards YOU drop, the ads you accept, and the amount of activity on your site drives the cost to advert on your site way up!

So people are dropping cards on you like mad! Every time this happens you are going to get an email and it’s going to have a URL to their site in it. Click the link, open their site, and “drop yours” on their entre widget. Every time you do you get 1 more EC. If you get a bunch of emails, this is a quick way to get more EC’s. You can do it once per day for every site as well! When I was looking at other sites under “Campaigns”, one of the things I was confused by at first was the “approved requests rejected” stat. I get it now, because if you approve a bunch of site adverts, and then the EC cost of your site goes way up, you can choose to “reject” sites waiting in line you already approved (who were approved at a lower EC cost), to get higher paying ones in their more quickly. So you can honor those committments, or piss off a bunch of people - the choice is yours.

You can also go to someone’s profile page and add a “recommendation” for their site. I’ve no idea what purpose this serves other than driving up the EC cost to advert on their site. I have to say though, beyond the advertising part of entrecard - the social part has been nice too. What I mean is, in order to get EC’s I was forced to visit a lot of blogs that I didn’t know existed. I actually did find some nice content and great articles that led me to other cool services and gave me future ideas as well. I found a few sites I’ve contacted as a result of this and have made some good blogging contacts. In addition, I have been getting some great traffic from it, and the CTR from the advert (for me) seems to be pretty good as well!